The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-09-17
FACTS ABOUT PAPER.

Origiu and Growth Of One Of the Woril'I
Most Important Industries.
The Chinese are credited with being
the first to reduce vegetable matter to
the fiber and web which constitute
modern paper. According to Gibbon.
the art of manufacture from this mate
rial was introduced from China into
Samarcand, city of Asia Minor. in
651. Here the new method soon took
shape and modern paper-making be-
came quite an industry in the city. In
704 the Saracens, fierce. warlike tribe
of Arabs. captured the city and learned
the art of paper-making, which they in-
troduced into Mecca three years later.
In I'll they made descent ON Spain,
making themselves masters of that
country. and established paper-making
upon good footing there. BY this
time raw cotton had become the chief
material of manufacture. During the
reign of the Saracens and Moors in
Spain the industry fourished and pa
per became the universal writing ma
terial. The Spanish introduced cotton
rags in 1885 as material of manufact-
ure, and soon afterward linen rags.
This was probably the first use of rags
in paper-making.
Paper can now be made from almost
any fibrous substance, but the chief ma
terial of manufacture still remains rags,
straw, old paper, cotton waste, MANILA,
jute. esparto grass. wood pulp and
chemicals. The introduction of wood
pulp into paper-making is the most im-
portant Improvement made in the
manufacture within the last half-cent-
ury, for without it the immense editions
of the great dailies would be impossible,
and that wonderful piece Of mechanism
and ingenuity, the web perfecting or
lightning press, dead letter. Paper
made entirely from rags does not take
as kindly to printers ink as is desirable
and has tendency to clog the type,
necessitating frequent stoppages Of the
press to wash of the clogging in run
ming off large edition. Paper con-
tanning wood pulp has natural affinity
to printers ink and receives the inn
preston almost instantaneously. with
out the least soiling or clogging of the
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